Comments on: What in the hell are “OPSBIs”?http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:59:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: lanflfanhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/comment-page-2/#comment-151222
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:41:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-151222True, but no one can touch The Donald for bad hair pieces. All that money, and a 1 cent piece.
]]>By: Kevin S.http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-151215
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:29:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-151215How about lacking a fundamental understanding of division?

Although if we wanted to go really off the wall, I could see a six-team round-robin in each league replacing the LDS, then going into the LCS with the top two teams. That would be fun.

]]>By: cur68http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/comment-page-2/#comment-151190
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:13:14 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-151190Well Chris, here’s the problem. I’m sitting around the University’s Graduate Lounge getting some useful work done and auditing this here site. Actually I’m getting f-all done but I’m having a great time on HBT, so whatever. I’m not a stat geek. I’ve had stats forced upon me; so I was not born into them nor do I take to it naturally nor does anyone who knows me think of me as a good resource for help with their statistics problems. Also Mom’s basement was a LONG time ago. I do however know that adding an integer like RBIs to a fraction like OPS is STUPID and MEANS NOTHING OF ANY USE WHATSOEVER.

You do understand that’s what Mr. Bowden is doing, right? In case you don’t, here’s how I think this works; Say you have 100 RBIs last year and your OPS is .780. Depending on how you do it, using Bowden’s OPSBI stat this is 100 + either .780 (= 100.780) or 100 + 780 (= 880). WTF use is this?

You say you hate all the hardcore sabermatricians and stat geeks? They ruin the beauty of the game and try to dry it out into numbers or some such? Well this guy is the ultimate wannabe sabermatirican stat geek. He’s inventing a meaningless number and claiming to make baseball decisions based on it. You really want him in charge of teams do you?

]]>By: Chris Fiorentinohttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/comment-page-2/#comment-151136
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:20:23 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-151136I laugh at you Paul, only because you are sitting there in your parent’s basement, thinking about what could have been if you did not tear your ACL in your Senior year of High School and dropped out. How you could have been drafted by the Royals or White Sox, but instead, because you tore your knee up, you banged the local high school slut in the back of your candy-apple red 1984 Iroc-Z and knocked her up. Now you live in the basement, drinking PBR and Natty Lights while your stripper girlfriend baby’s momma works third shift at the local truck stop and keeps your spawn under the counter of the smoky restaurant. You sit there on the under-stuffed couch, hand-me-down from the local thrift store that your mom bought you for $8 3 years ago. You smoke some weed with the few bucks you get working odd jobs here and there and you dream of what could have been…what might have been…had God not ripped your knee up all those years ago.

I feel for you Paul…I truly do. I hope that one day, you rise up and get out of your parent’s basement. You get that GED and eventually that Associates degree from the local community college. I hope you win the roofer’s softball championship, which is what, a week from this Friday night, right? I hope everything works out for you…I really do.

He obviously cares enough because he keeps responding to the comments.

Tough day at the drive through, Chris? Drivers getting surly because you didn’t bring them their fries fast enough. Chin up and all that.

]]>By: royalsfaninfargohttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/comment-page-2/#comment-151075
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:24:02 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-151075Bowden has one of the worst hair pieces of anyone in sports. It makes Marv Albert’s hair look natural.
]]>By: Chris Fiorentinohttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/comment-page-2/#comment-151028
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:54:55 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-151028I just love to LOL at all the stat geeks up in arms about this. The guy was a GM in baseball twice while all you bozos live in your mom’s basements wearing green shades so you don’t go blind from looking at your Excel spreadsheets never watching a second of actual baseball being played. Then when mommy doesn’t have your meatloaf downstairs to you in a timely fashion, you go ballistic on her yelling from downstairs for her to hurry the #$#%@ up.

All the while, Jim Bowden was twice a GM of a Major League Baseball team making millions of dollars. And he cares what you idiots think why???

And yes, I am not in a good mood today and this type of nonsense puts me in an even worse mood. Just sit in the basement, wearing your team’s colors on your underoos worshipping your Excel spreadsheets and keep ripping Bowden while he spends his millions.

]]>By: dwishinskyhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-151002
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:19:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-151002I wonder if for career OPSRBI you should take the OPS and multiply it by seasons? Nothing beats nice neat tidy statistics like Rickey Henderson’s career 21,615 OPSRBI using that method.

Stay away from any team I like Bowden!

]]>By: thefalcon123http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150989
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:48:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150989Good point! I always knew Lou Brock (1281 OBPSB) was better than Babe Ruth (597 OBPSB).
]]>By: paperlionshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150987
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:45:09 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150987The content Bowden provides on ESPN is pretty pathetic, the written content is bad, but he is just as bad on radio. He never sounds like he has any idea what he’s talking about and regularly puts his ignorance on full display. It’s embarrassing stuff to read/listen to….and the whole time I just want to know how he was involved in helping to cheat Latin American kids out of their signing bonuses.
]]>By: tomemoshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150985
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:45:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150985Of course you missed why it’s funny. Of course you did.
]]>By: blacubedhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150980
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:40:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150980Hurry! Someone find me the OPSBI of Wily Mo Pena!
]]>By: jjhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150963
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:05:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150963This reminds me of a stat my buddies came up with to evaluate leadoff hitters: Steals plus On-Base percentage = SPO.

This was in a conversation mocking some Joe Morgan commentary, mind you.

]]>By: bigxrobhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150952
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:48:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150952Bowden said that for post-realignment play-offs, he would take 6 teams per league, that way no teams would have byes. um, really?
Does he lack a fundamental undersatnding of sports in general?
]]>By: hamispighttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150934
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:27:44 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150934But Rickey is a leadoff hitter, so you have to use the OBPRSB statistic, by which measure he is the best there’s ever been.
]]>By: Gardenhire's Cathttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150900
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:33:36 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150900No wonder Bowden’s unemployed by MLB
]]>By: oikosjeremyhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150899
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:33:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150899Okay then, mock away!
]]>By: thefalcon123http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150893
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:24:27 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150893Rickey Henderson nabbed a career 1,935 OPSRBI (or 1115.82, depending on how you calculate hit). According to Jim Bowden, the following players were better than Rickey Henderson:

]]>By: ThatGuyhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150892
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:22:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150892I kind of respect that atleast he is willing to answer every comment(even though 90% of them are ripping on him) as opposed to writing the article and walking away so to speak.
]]>By: cur68http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/06/16/what-in-the-hell-are-opsbis/#comment-150889
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:15:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=64451#comment-150889He’s pretty much defending it as an added figure not a side by side. I’d feel sorry for him right now if he wasn’t an a$$-clown.
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